The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1884 - Great Britain |
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Edmund Burke. changes in it , might have seemed an abandonment of the principles which it contained . The author , there- fore , discovering , that , with the exception of the in troductory letter , he had not in fact kept any clean copy ...
Edmund Burke. changes in it , might have seemed an abandonment of the principles which it contained . The author , there- fore , discovering , that , with the exception of the in troductory letter , he had not in fact kept any clean copy ...
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... principles , the greatest part of the governments on earth must be concluded tyrannies , impostures , violations of the natural rights of mankind , and worse than the most disorderly anarchies . How much other forms exceed this we shall ...
... principles , the greatest part of the governments on earth must be concluded tyrannies , impostures , violations of the natural rights of mankind , and worse than the most disorderly anarchies . How much other forms exceed this we shall ...
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... principles of any party , or what their preten- sions are ; the spirit which actuates all parties is the same ; the spirit of ambition , of self - interest , of op- pression and treachery . This spirit entirely reverses all the principles ...
... principles of any party , or what their preten- sions are ; the spirit which actuates all parties is the same ; the spirit of ambition , of self - interest , of op- pression and treachery . This spirit entirely reverses all the principles ...
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... principles by the effect of the com- position , as well as the composition by that of the principles . We ought to compare our subject with things of a similar nature , and even with things of a contrary nature ; for discoveries may be ...
... principles by the effect of the com- position , as well as the composition by that of the principles . We ought to compare our subject with things of a similar nature , and even with things of a contrary nature ; for discoveries may be ...
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... principles I endeavor to establish . This manner of proceeding I should think very improper . The task would be infinite , if we could establish no principle until we had pre- viously unravelled the complex texture of every image or ...
... principles I endeavor to establish . This manner of proceeding I should think very improper . The task would be infinite , if we could establish no principle until we had pre- viously unravelled the complex texture of every image or ...
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